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Art

6 August 2024

  • painting of three people in misty night

    Out of Town: art inspired by summer’s desire to escape from the city

    New York’s Forum Gallery assembles pieces focused on the many joys of heading to nature from the urban world

5 August 2024

  • A red chalk drawing a naked woman in three different poses

    ‘Unique opportunity’ to see Italian Renaissance drawings in London

    Exhibition from royal collection will include about 160 works from Titian, Michelangelo, Leonardo and others
  • Chernobyl by Pierpaolo Mittica

    ‘With the war in Ukraine, these stories no longer exist’: the final images from inside Chornobyl

    A new book brings together Pierpaolo Mittica’s stunning photographs from the devastated, yet still populated, exclusion zone around the destroyed nuclear power plant
  • Painted side-on to conceal an eye lost to jousting … the Duke and Duchess of Urbino by Piero della Francesca, c1475

    ‘One of the most charismatic artists ever’: Piero della Francesca, adored by everyone from Hockney to Heaney

    He transfixed Pasolini and painted Seamus Heaney’s favourite artwork – and now David Hockney is paying tribute to this very modern Renaissance master in a joint show

4 August 2024

  • Visitors to the newly transformed Jurassic dinosaur gardens at the Natural History Museum.

    A small tourist charge could boost museums’ finances

  • A&L130002,ART & LANGUAGE,Nobody Spoke, 2013-2014,Installation comprising 17 chairs, alogram on canvas over plywood with acrylic and mixed media,3 ‘chairs’, 101.3 x 35.5 x 48.3 cm 7 ‘chairs’, 96.7 x 38 x 44.4 cm 7 ‘chairs’, 92 x 35.5 x 43 cm,1.2 chairs 39.9 x 14 x 19

    Mel Ramsden obituary

  • Artist Ken Done in his painting studio

    Three things
    Three things with Ken Done: ‘I bought a very large Fred Williams painting – but I sold it, which was stupid’

  • A stylised, surrealist landscape with objects floating in the air

    Reclusive artist to show ‘extraordinary’ work in UK for first time in decades

  • British artist’s cartoons that inspired Bond films on show at Oscars museum

  • Hany Armanious: Stone Soup review – the quizzical strangeness of the everyday

3 August 2024

  • A black and white photographe of a young girl standing among a series of open-mouthed sculptures and imitating them

    Smart shot
    ‘The girl was so much like the sculptures they became a whole’: Yue Yu’s best phone picture

    The Chinese photographer’s image offers a different take on a Beijing artwork
  • Kensuke's Kingdom

    Going out, staying in
    From Kensuke’s Kingdom to Justin Timberlake: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

    Michael Morpurgo’s children’s adventure gets animated, while the pop R&B megastar rolls into the UK on his summer tour
  • Hiroshi Sugimoto

    Australian arts in focus
    ‘I make reality out of fantasy’: Hiroshi Sugimoto on fooling the world with his camera

    As his survey opens in Sydney, the legendary photographer talks about using light and shadow to bring the dead back to life, and why he turned down a job from Bono

2 August 2024

  • From The British Isles by Jamie Hawkesworth.

    Jamie Hawkesworth: The British Isles review – enigmatic vignettes thick with nostalgia

    The Preston Bus Station photographer finds drama in the quotidian, creating a chronicle of UK life through unusual closeups and lavish landscapes
  • Marketing Photography of Rothko, Tate St Ives, 2024<br>Mark Rothko The Seagram Murals installation view at Tate St Ives 2024. Photo © Tate (Jai Monaghan)

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Piero and Hockney eye to eye, Holzer logs in and Rothko heads to the beach – the week in art

    A Renaissance master shows with a modern one, pioneering digital art and an abstract expressionist megalith arrives in St Ives – all in your weekly dispatch
  • The Last Stand by Fiona Francois Charcoal drawing

    From Tasmanian cliffs to pig-nosed turtles: $100,000 Hadley’s Art prize – in pictures

    Hadley’s Art prize is an annual acquisitive prize for Australian landscape art that is believed to be the richest in the world. Selected from 35 finalists, Zoe Grey has won for The Shape of Rock

1 August 2024

  • Words, words, words … a gallerygoer considers Rajasthan (Wall Painting), 2012, by Bridget Riley.

    Five of the best
    Five of the best novels about art

    Rachel Cusk, Raven Leilani and Hari Kunzru are among writers inspired by artists to find shape and form in their own works

31 July 2024

  • man wearing "budgie smugglers" is seen laying on the sand at Bronte Beach in Sydney, Australia

    Brief letters
    The glorious range of Australian slang

    Brief letters: Budgie smugglers | In the eye of the beholder | Pylon petulance | Song thrush in Essex | Suella Braverman
  • Ed Clark, Untitled c.1976. © The Estate of Ed Clark. Courtesy the Estate and Hauser &amp; Wirth.

    Ed Clark review – so ordinary he could almost be British

    Pity the poor sunbathers who wander from the beach into this weak and confusing show that proves not all abstract art is worth seeing
  • ‘A new cycle of violence was sucking in young men and boys’ … a detail from Mai Mai militia by Cunningham.Mai Mai militia from the APCLS armed group are seen after recapturing Mai Mai militia by Hugh Kinsella Cunningham.

    My best shot
    Teenage militia take a break from battle: Hugh Kinsella Cunningham’s best photograph

    ‘These soldiers are fighting Rwandan-backed rebels in the DRC. They’re attempting to pose – but you can see how lost and vulnerable they are’
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